{"id":256025,"date":"2026-08-03T22:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/nationals-part-ways-with-ace-foster-griffin-in-trade-with-guardians\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T22:03:01","slug":"nationals-part-ways-with-ace-foster-griffin-in-trade-with-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/03\/nationals-part-ways-with-ace-foster-griffin-in-trade-with-guardians\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals part ways with ace Foster Griffin in trade with Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/washington_nationals\/30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Nationals<\/a> were not expecting a breakout season from left-hander Foster Griffin when they inked him to a one-year deal ahead of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>However, a breakout season is exactly what they got, and with the two sides far apart in contract negotiations, Washington capitalized on Griffin&#8217;s success and shipped him away just ahead of the MLB trade deadline.<\/p>\n<h2>Foster Griffin heads to Cleveland<\/h2>\n<p>According to ESPN&#8217;s MLB insider Jeff Passan, the Nationals sent Griffin to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/teams\/cleveland_guardians\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> for a hefty prospect package.<\/p>\n<p>The return includes three pitchers in Will Dion, Josh Hartle, Kendeglys Virguez and outfielder Nick Mitchell.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/mlb\/articles\/nationals_part_ways_with_ace_foster_griffin_in_trade_with_guardians\/s1_13132_44134211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Nationals were not expecting a breakout season from left-hander Foster Griffin when they inked him to a one-year deal ahead of the 2026 season. However, a breakout season is exactly what they got, and with the two sides far apart in contract negotiations, Washington capitalized on Griffin&#8217;s success and shipped him away just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}